September 27 2018 Elephant and Rhino Poaching in Africa

Homeroom Article: Nike nearly cut ties with Colin Kaepernick months before 'Just Do It' campaign, per report - USA Today

Political Cartoon: FIFA Officials in Uniform

Essential Question: Extinction: Is it important to the ecosystem/economy of Africa?

Scavenger Hunt

EdPuzzle Video: Why Can't We Stop Poachers?

Save the elephants

http://www.savetheelephants.org/about-elephants-2-3-2/importance-of-elephants/

What may happen if rhinos were lost

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/articles/heres-what-might-happen-local-ecosystems-if-all-rhinos-disappear-180949896/

Rhino summary facts:

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2745.12218

Elephants

https://blog.conservation.org/2015/08/dead-or-alive-the-value-of-an-elephant/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpL6fl9TT3QIViZOzCh0oIw4mEAAYASAAEgLczfD_BwE

Yesterday's Websites

Rhinos BBC:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45089699

NBC Elephants

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/africa/wildlife-poaching-brings-unimaginable-consequences-n391976

Drones NBC news:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/air-shepherd-uses-drones-stop-elephant-rhino-poachers-africa-n335801

Video: Anti-poaching battlefield draws U.S. veterans

Notecards: Write or draw your solution to the poaching problem.